This winter Ace's U.S.-based competitors raised a stink about a tax rule that enables a corporate parent in Bermuda to import premiums free of corporate income tax by reinsuring some policies sold by its American subsidiary.

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Researchers have hope for tiny parasitic wasps from Asia, which scientists are studying to see if they can be hungrily effective if introduced in the U.S. The wasps lay their eggs within the stink bugs' own egg masses.

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